Sentences with phrase «signaling activities from»

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It's not surprising that general partners and their respective limited partners want to keep this activity quiet — an LP interest transfer resulting from a very practical reason could unnecessarily be misconstrued as a vote of no confidence by the LP or a signal of an LP's poor financial health.

It sends important signals across the economy, helping to guide consumption choices and investments towards low - carbon and away from carbon - intensive activities.

It is a natural unit functioning in an environment, and it maintains its patterned activities through responding to signals from outside.

«Sending out strong advance signals to prospective families that if their child obtains a place at the school they will be expected to make significant financial contributions to school funds, requirements to purchase uniforms from expensive sole suppliers and charging for educational activities are all strategies of covert selection.

His mission — called the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment — will allow scientists to better model electrical activity that can interfere with signals from satellites and spacecraft.

«Because you've associated things over time, you're going to associate a certain triggering point in the frontal lobe or the basal forebrain and tell certain regions of the brain stem to adopt a state of activity as if it were receiving signals from the body that were consonant with emotion x.

The video and neural signals were then combined to show which muscle movements resulted from which neuron firings and how the activity of the neurons appeared to anticipate movement.

As signals are sent from one cell to the next, rhythmic patterns of electrical activity, commonly known as brain waves, are generated.

Although the physical basis of consciousness is one of the deepest enigmas in biology, the best guess is that it arises from coordinated activity between the cortex and the thalamus, a switching station for sensory and motor signals, and within the cortex, which handles higher - order cognitive functions.

Now, researchers from the Graphene Flagship have developed a new device for recording brain activity in high resolution while maintaining excellent signal to noise ratio (SNR).

Yet these abilities stem not from the activity of any one neuron, but from networks of interconnected neurons sending and receiving simple signals and working in concert with each other.

It measures blood flow to the brain by sending light signals from sensors mounted in a 3 - pound headcap, then producing images of blood oxygen changes — representing brain activity — by recording the absorption of light at different colors.

Scientists in the US are planning to map the brain activity of the dragonfly as it hunts, using a specially built backpack to transmit electrical signals from the insect's active neurons to a computer.

Looking like an EKG signal, the electromyograph, or EMG, reading from the gluteus maximus, in red, showed little activity when Jeff strolled.

A key problem has been separating these precise brain signals from those associated with other brain activity, and the highly artificial signals generated by the exoskeleton.

«Previous research documented brain activity in response to sound during early developmental phases, but it was hard to determine where in the brain these signals were coming from,» said Patrick Kanold, a professor of biology at UMD and the senior author of the research paper.

After the associations between smell and place were well established, the researchers could see a pattern of brain wave activity (the electrical signal from a large number of neurons) during retrieval.

Electrodes are surgically implanted into or on top of target nerve fibres, ready to sense electrical signals from neural activity or to deliver electric current that mimics the language of the nervous system.

Interestingly, by recording the electrical activity in the spinal cords of mice depleted of NPY interneurons, the researchers discovered that the NPY neurons seem to selectively inhibit or gate light touch signals coming from hairy skin, but not the non-hairy (glabrous) skin, such as the skin found on your palm.

Named after the enigmatic sphinx, this cell signal is important in many activities of living cells, from migration to proliferation.

The scintigraphy aspect of the scanner is composed of a gamma camera that detects tiny radioactive signals emitted from the body after injection of a radionuclide, which interacts with specific physiological functions of the body, so that nuclear medicine physicians and their colleagues can extrapolate information from the radionuclide's activity.

Whilst PET does show brown fat activity, it is subject to a number of limitations including the challenge of signal variability from a changing environmental temperature.

The researchers engineered a strain in which a Synechococcus gene normally turned on during photosynthesis signals its activity by switching on the gene for luciferase, an enzyme from another bacterium that drives a light - emitting chemical reaction.

One of the team's achievements was to separate the signal caused by the star's activity from the signal produced by the planet.

Among many other things, the enzyme responds to signals from NMDA receptors, leading to more receptor activity and stronger signaling throughout the network of cells.

Alpha oscillations are regular fluctuations in the electrical activity in the back of the human brain — an area that includes the visual cortex, responsible for processing signals from the eyes.

«By diverting their attention away from sound, the participants» auditory cortex activity went down, and the signal we were measuring also went down.»

«Being able to pull that signal out from all the other busy activity that is going on, all the other gamma - ray traffic, is going to take some time,» says project scientist Steve Ritz of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

This may help us to understand how processes such as learning and memory formation, which require long - term changes in the brain, arise from the short bursts of electrical activity through which neurons signal to each other,» Greenberg said.

Signals from gut bacteria can change the amount of crotonylation in the gut and so influence gene activity.

This activity occurs about a second before you actually move and can be identified by EEG signals from the motor cortex.

Activity in touch - sensitive fibers can actually turn off shared central neurons, preventing pain signals from reaching the brain.

Rose and neuroscience doctoral student Rishi Alluri used a novel combination of recording electrical activity of single brain cells and blocking neurotransmitter chemicals that carry nerve signals from one nerve cell or neuron to the next.

The cascade produces a cell signal from a protein called interleukin - 1beta (IL - 1b), which increases the activity of pain - responsive nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain.

They listen, through your scalp, for the incredibly weak remnants of electrical signals from your brain activity.

The scintigraphy aspect of the scanner is comprised of a gamma camera that detects tiny radioactive signals emitted from the body after injection of a radionuclide, which interacts with specific physiological functions of the body, so that nuclear medicine physicians and their colleagues can extrapolate information from the radionuclide's activity.

«We tested whether a DNN signal pattern decoded from brain activity can be used to identify seen or imagined objects from arbitrary categories,» explains Kamitani.

However, chondrogenesis assays in chick micromass cultures showed that enhanced signaling by the mutant R206H ACVR1 can be partially inhibited by the BMP antagonist Noggin, suggesting that in addition to BMP - independent activity by the R206H ACVR1 receptor, this mutant receptor is also responsive to BMP, consistent with previous BMP signaling pathway studies that used cells derived from FOP patients (48 — 50).

The team from Kyoto University and ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research) Computational Neuroscience Laboratories discovered that brain activity patters can be decoded, or translated, into signal patterns of simulated neurons in the DNN when both are shown the same image.

This natural variability in the brain response was also reflected by the EEG activity and the researchers suggest that this signal might help the brain make the transition from processing stimuli back to their internal thoughts in different ways.

«We hope the findings from this paper will contribute to the field by providing a broader picture of some of these signaling activities,» says Chalasani.

By recording neuronal activity in the input and output layers of the olfactory bulb, as well as feedback from olfactory cortical areas and neuromodulatory signals, Albeanu and his team aim to understand computations the bulb performs and how this information is decoded deeper in the brain.

Deletion of DGKζ from T cells results in prolonged TCR signal transduction downstream of DAG, resulting in enhanced activation of Ras, increased effector T cell proliferation, and amplified cytokine production, which leads to increased antitumor activity against s.c. implanted EL4 tumors or murine mesothelioma (12, 16, 17).

Our data suggests that targeting DGKζ could prove to be a more useful clinical approach to augment cytotoxic T cell activity against tumor than targeting Cbl - b, perhaps resulting from enhanced Ras / ERK signaling.

Data from the laboratory shows that signals from these molecules through their receptors control the activities and long - term survival of T cells, as well as affecting the activities of other cell types including dendritic cells, macrophages, and epithelial cells.

(A) GUS activity with and without 10 µm of the TNT ligand in paired leaves from transgenic plants serving as negative controls and transgenic plants containing the complete signal transduction system.

«This, in turn, activates another group of proteins, called ETS transcription factors, and it is this signaling relay — from Vegf to MAPKs to ETS factors — that turns on an maintains Dll4 activity, helping the arterial cells grow and gain their cellular identity over time.»

Wiens, who has worked on similar seismic studies near the Mariana trench and in Antarctica, said these Alaskan experiments will monitor signals from earthquakes to learn more about what triggers volcanoes in the area and how magma movement beneath the earth's crust contributes to the region's intensive geologic activity.

Based on a number of studies, we postulate that to transmit nutritional information from the fat body to the insulin - producing cells, the fat - body — derived signal would need to have the following properties: (1) it should be produced in the fat body and secreted into the hemolymph, (2) its expression and / or secretion should be amino acid - and TOR - sensitive, (3) it should act downstream of TOR signaling to stimulate ILP secretion from the insulin - producing cells, and (4) its secretion should increase IIS activity in the entire body, resulting in increased body size.

In addition, we found that GBPs stimulate ILP secretion from the insulin - producing cells, either directly or indirectly, thereby increasing insulin and insulin - like growth factor signaling activity throughout the body.